Trayvon Martin is dead because George Zimmerman “tracked” and then shot Trayvon Martin instead of waiting for police to arrive, prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda told the jury at Zimmerman’s murder trial. De la Rionda, presenting the prosecution’s closing argument, accused Zimmerman of taking the law into his own hands during their February 2012 confrontation. […]

Los Angeles rapper Guerilla Black is facing some serious jail time. The rapper known for his 2004 hit “Compton” entered a guilty plea when he…

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has been charged with murder in the death of 27-year-old semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd, who was found shot execution-style about a half-mile from Hernandez’s home. Hernandez appeared in a packed courtroom number one at Attleboro District Court, where he faces five charges, the most significant being […]

  Opening statements began this morning shortly after 9 a.m. day one of State of Florida v. Zimmerman trial in Seminole County Florida Criminal Justice Courthouse/Center, Sanford Florida with the State of Florida Prosecution team and the Zimmerman defense attorneys laying the foundations for their theories of the case, and then explaining just what each […]

The George Zimmerman murder trial began Monday morning with a powerful opening argument by prosecutor John Guy that included a gut-wrenching account of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin‘s final moments of life. For some reason, the defense elected to have the argument that “there are no monsters” in this case made by a guy who looks and sounds like Voldemort’s undertaker, and […]

A jury has been selected in the George Zimmerman second-degree murder trial. It is comprised of six women, five of them white. Attorneys are in the process of choosing the four alternates in the case. Attorneys in the trial of George Zimmerman wrapped up jury selection questioning this morning, which means a jury will soon be seated to try […]

Trayvon Martin’s familiarity with guns, his marijuana use, and fights he may have been in cannot be brought up in George Zimmerman’s murder trial, the judge overseeing the case ruled Tuesday. At the hearing two weeks before the scheduled start of the trial, Judge Debra Nelson handed a series of victories to the prosecution when […]

  Abortion provider Kermit Gosnell was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder for severing the spinal cords of infants born during abortions at his West Philadelphia clinic. The trial now moves into a sentencing phase to decide whether Gosnell should receive the death penalty or face life in prison. The verdicts were announced hours after […]

O.J. Simpson will return next week to the Las Vegas courthouse where he was convicted of leading an armed sports memorabilia heist to ask a judge for a new trial on the grounds that his lawyer botched his case. Simpson will take the witness stand to testify that the Florida lawyer who collected nearly $700,000 […]

Today is a critical day for Bisard. Prosecutors asked to keep him in jail until his trial starts in October, saying he’s a “public threat.” An Allen County judge  ultimately made the decision that they were correct. Word has just come down: David Bisard will be staying in jail until his trial starts in October. Right […]

So a white man named Joe Rickey Hundley decided to slap a Black baby on a Delta Airlines flight and followed up with a “n*gger” to go along with it. He pleaded not guilty in a federal court earlier this week, claiming he wasn’t well when he did it. (You don’t say, REALLY?…smh) According to […]

Kwame Kilpatrick turned Detroit’s City Hall into a “private profit machine” by rigging contracts, demanding bribes and even stealing money meant for the needy, a prosecutor said during closing arguments Monday in the former mayor’s corruption trial. Kilpatrick spent $840,000 more than he earned as Detroit’s mayor from 2002 until 2008, Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Michael Bullotta told […]